Bonus points if you rode your xbike to the garage sale. Then bought the bike and slung it over your shoulder to ride home with it.
Jeffrey_C_Wheaties on
Antpitta on
Yeah but after putting $900 in upgrades into it, it becomes a $100 bike that “totally rips”
*smiles in modern mountainbike*
Zacupunk on
I’ve done that very thing at least 6 times.
pine4links on
Can’t wait to see this on one of those explain-the-meme subreddits
ThisAmericanSatire on
I’ve tried the whole “buy vintage and restore” with other items, and it’s a rabbit hole I advise avoiding.
All the good ones have already been found and are now owned by people who know what you’re willing to pay. Your dream of finding a Rockhopper for cheap by some clueless yard sale owner (which is totally the exact brand, size, and theme you want) is about the same as buying a winning lottery ticket.
There are hustlers out there who know *all* about vintage items – their hustle is finding these things and flipping them to you for a profit.
For me, it was antique hand planes. That’s a woodworking tool for flattening wood.
I spent a few hundred dollars (in 2013 money) trying to get a couple of “the good ones” from the 1920’s and many, many, many hours restoring them instead of, you know, *actually doing woodworking*.
Why? Well because “they don’t make em’ like they used to” and the new ones are either crap, or $$$.
But, in the end, I realized I would have saved myself a massive amount of time, money, and energy if I’d just bought a Lie Nielsen #5 for $300 and called it a day.
If you love the hunt and the restoration work, that’s awesome and I’m happy for you.
If you’ve never done “buy vintage and restore”, then consider this a warning: It’s way easier, less expensive, and less time consuming to just buy a newer bike and start from there.
cyclenaut on
When you see the sun glimmer off that dinucci green frame you know the gods have blessed you
Oh_yeah10 on
I just check FB marketplace periodically and will sometimes see a great deal.
MathCrank on
I just want cool parts
Nser_Uame on
Step 1: Buy an old Rockhopper.
Step 2: Restore the old Rockhopper.
Step 3: ?
Step 4: Use profit to build an opera house in the Peruvian Amazon.
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Bonus points if you rode your xbike to the garage sale. Then bought the bike and slung it over your shoulder to ride home with it.
Yeah but after putting $900 in upgrades into it, it becomes a $100 bike that “totally rips”
*smiles in modern mountainbike*
I’ve done that very thing at least 6 times.
Can’t wait to see this on one of those explain-the-meme subreddits
I’ve tried the whole “buy vintage and restore” with other items, and it’s a rabbit hole I advise avoiding.
All the good ones have already been found and are now owned by people who know what you’re willing to pay. Your dream of finding a Rockhopper for cheap by some clueless yard sale owner (which is totally the exact brand, size, and theme you want) is about the same as buying a winning lottery ticket.
There are hustlers out there who know *all* about vintage items – their hustle is finding these things and flipping them to you for a profit.
For me, it was antique hand planes. That’s a woodworking tool for flattening wood.
I spent a few hundred dollars (in 2013 money) trying to get a couple of “the good ones” from the 1920’s and many, many, many hours restoring them instead of, you know, *actually doing woodworking*.
Why? Well because “they don’t make em’ like they used to” and the new ones are either crap, or $$$.
But, in the end, I realized I would have saved myself a massive amount of time, money, and energy if I’d just bought a Lie Nielsen #5 for $300 and called it a day.
If you love the hunt and the restoration work, that’s awesome and I’m happy for you.
If you’ve never done “buy vintage and restore”, then consider this a warning: It’s way easier, less expensive, and less time consuming to just buy a newer bike and start from there.
When you see the sun glimmer off that dinucci green frame you know the gods have blessed you
I just check FB marketplace periodically and will sometimes see a great deal.
I just want cool parts
Step 1: Buy an old Rockhopper.
Step 2: Restore the old Rockhopper.
Step 3: ?
Step 4: Use profit to build an opera house in the Peruvian Amazon.
With a helmet of course